Harvard University is the suing the US government over its plan to block up to $9bn of government research grants to the institution ...

A series of spectacular images of the cosmos has been released to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 35 years in space ...

How it works Artist’s impression of how an ultrafast disruption of superconductivity in a YBCO thin film triggers an abrupt ...

The presence of disorder causes worms to speed up, not slow down – a surprising result with applications in robotics ...

Supercritical water also shows promise as an environmentally friendly solvent for industrial processes such as catalysis, and ...

Researchers in Canada are developing a low-cost orthovoltage radiotherapy system for use in low-resource and geographically remote regions ...

A new retinal stimulation technique called Oz enabled volunteers to see colours that lie beyond the natural range of human vision. Developed by researchers at UC Berkeley, Oz works by stimulating ...

A proposed experiment that would involve trapping atoms on a two-layered laser grid could be used to study the mechanism ...

Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) enable the flow of information between the brain and an external device such as a computer, ...

A quarter of a century after he started writing his “Critical Point” column, Robert P Crease reveals his underlying message ...

Abnormal versions of synchronization patterns known as “Arnold’s tongues” have been observed in a femtosecond fibre laser that generates oscillating light pulses. While these unconventional patterns ...

Physicists working on the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are the first to report the production of top quark–antiquark pairs in collisions involving heavy nuclei. By colliding ...